Question

scientific notation is represented by floating point values internal to the computer. What are the three fields used in floating point?

Answer 1

Answer

three fields in the floating point are

*Sign

*Mantissa or significand

*Exponent

Sign is a field which has either positive or negative ,sign is the first bit of binary representation .here 1 represents positive and 0 represents negative.

Mantissa which is also called a significand is a part of a number which is in scientific notation.it represents the precision bits of a number

Exponent is which represents both negative and positive exponents, exponent defines where the decimal point should be there ,it also signifies the integer power to which the radix is to be determined the floating point representation.